By David Shead
Choosing New Songs
In this last article in the series, let me turn our attention to the important job of choosing new songs.
Five things to consider:
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Choosing what we sing in Church: Choosing Songs – order (Part 8 of 9)
By David Shead
The song choosing process
It’s time to actually choose the songs! How do we go about doing it? It involves planning, preparation and order.
Let’s look at order.
Choosing what we sing in Church: Choosing Songs – preparation (Part 7 of 9)
By David Shead
The song choosing process
It’s time to actually choose the songs! How do we go about doing it? It involves planning, preparation and order.
Let’s look at preparation.
Choosing what we sing in Church: Choosing Songs – planning (Part 6 of 9)
By David Shead
The song choosing process
It’s time to actually choose the songs! How do we go about doing it? It involves planning, preparation and order.
Let’s look at planning.
Choosing what we sing in Church:Why Sing? (Part 2 of 9)
By David Shead
Why sing?
What is the place of singing in corporate worship?
Of all the things we normally do when we gather together for corporate worship (singing, prayer, Bible readings, teaching, etc.), singing is not more worship or more “worshipful” than the other elements. All are equally acts of corporate worship. This is why it’s theologically misleading to refer to the song leader as the “worship leader”.
However, there is a particular and important contribution that singing makes to our corporate worship (just as there is a particular and important contribution that our corporate prayers make, or our instruction from God’s word makes, etc.). What is singing’s particular contribution? Why sing?
There are a number of important reasons:
